We have just done that all summer, I hate wood (just spent 4 hours moving wood again yesterday)!!!!!! Lol just kidding but it is nice to have. We decided to keep our trees and cut and stack them for outside firewood. It is a lot of work, we spent a lot of our free time on doing this summer. My husband would cut, our boys and I would carry and I would stack. I think we kept way too much, I guess we will be having a lot of fires. We had 30 foot poplar trees and cleared about 1 acre.
Make sure that you pile it far far away from your building site as we are having to move most of wood to another location as it was too close.

I could go either way. It's going to have to be kept far away from the house so they can get the ground level when everything else is done. My other thought is that you might cut all of it up for firewood and then someone else would take it. We had a lot of construction theft around here.

I was able to find someone to turn our trees into lumber. The white oak will be 1/4 sawn into flooring, the poplar will become trim, the red oak will become our mantle on the screen porch and the pine will be panelling. Are your trees big enough for this or do you have any interest in it?

I definatly would be interested in recycling the wood but do not know where to even being...but there are alot more small thin trees than large ones unfortunately.

sjsh_mom, I contacted the folks at Woodmizer and asked them who their customers in the metro Atlanta area were. I was warned that the hard part was getting the wood kiln dried, but the first guy I called has the whole deal mapped out. He gets the logs on a logging truck, hauls them to the kiln site, saws them, lets them sit, kiln dries them, hauls them to the mill to get planed and tongue and groove put on and then brings them back to the job site.

Here is the site for woodmizer:

Here is a link that might be useful: woodmizer

Thanks so much. I will look into it.

Hi All,

I have a similar situation. Clearing contractor is going to be generating lots of wood chips. We won't be doing construction till next year.
Does it make sense to have the contractor throw chips on the cleared land. Would it help prevent weeds or can it be used for landscaping later?

If yes, should I get one big pile or have it spread out? Or just have him take away everything?

Thanks.

AJ

AJ,

We had an enormous pile of chips. We used them all and keep getting more from tree contractors. They are great for weed control and. more importantly, erosion control. I think I'd spread enough to cover the bare dirt and try to keep a pile in an out of the way spot for future use: spreading around the house to keep rain from splattering mud up on the brick or siding, "pave" a path to the door in muddy weather, etc.

BTW the floors I mentioned above are installed and can be seen in the September "how is your build progressing" thread.